Up Popped The Two Lips
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Track Listing
- Tickled Pink
- Dark Black
- Look
- Around My Goose
- Calm Down
- Did You See That
- Do The Needful
Product Details
- Released on: 2004-10-01
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Dimensions: .20 pounds
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
Veteran alto saxophonist and flutist Henry Threadgill enters fresh territory with Up Popped the Two Lips. It's the first album by his intriguing, all-acoustic Zooid sextet. Along with a simultaneously issued new effort by another band of his, Make a Move, it also marks his first association with a small independent label in many a moon. A longtime proponent of world sounds, Threadgill plays international matchmaker here in drafting Moroccan oud player Tarik Benbrahim into a string section that includes acoustic guitarist Liberty Ellman and cellist Dana Leong. By turns jaunty and mysterious, funky and reflective, the music is characteristically Theadgillian with its contrasts between light and dark, juxtaposition of flighty carnival melodies and assertive zigzag rhythms, tricky time signatures and fulsome unison lines. And in Jose Davila, Threadgill has another excellent tuba player to man an instrument of great importance to his patented sound. But with Benbrahim and Ellman lightening the textures and drummer Dafnis Prieto nimbly threading through them--and doing his share of slashing as well--this may be Threadgill's springiest unit. Up Popped the Two Lips is certainly Threadgill's most consistently strong effort since 1993's Too Much Sugar for a Dime. --Lloyd Sachs
Chronique amazon.fr
Après s'être heurté à l'incompréhension et la fin du soutien de la major qui l'avait accueilli pendant des années, le saxophoniste chicagoan Henry Threadgill a décidé de monter sa propre structure à New York où il réside. Baptisée Pi Recordings, elle lui offre la possibilité de matérialiser ses préoccupations musicales. En 2001, ce sont ainsi deux groupes qu'il gère parallèlement et qui sortent des disques : Make a Move et Zooid. Le premier est sa formation électrique, le second, son sextette basé sur des compositions qui laissent la part belle à des improvisations pour la plupart très cadrées. Avec Zooid (tuba et violoncelle y remplacent la basse électrique, le oud, le vibraphone, et la guitare acoustique, la guitare électrique), les alliages de timbres sont plus travaillés, sophistiqués, le groove n'étant pas pour autant délaissé mais plus subtilement implicite et le brassage d'influences, du folk à la musique classique, plus vaste. À l'instar de Everybody's Mouth's A Book, Up Popped The Two Lips est un disque majeur d'un des saxophonistes clés de l'A.A.C.M. qui, trente ans après ses débuts, reste encore à découvrir. Cinq étoiles ! --Philippe Robert
